So in this lecture, I wanted to present just a few other memory techniques and tricks. And you'll have to experiment with these and figure out if they work for you or not. Some students just swear by them and others have tried them and just hate them. So the first one is the peg system. This was actually discovered probably around 1879 in England involves rhyming, basically the pegs are numbers, 1234, etc. And so you're going to assign a rhyme that goes with each number one gum, two shoe, three, tree, four, door, etc.

And so, that's the first step of this. You can pick any word you want, but just it'll rhyme and it'll make more sense that way. The next step is to visualize the item that the peg represents. You know, we're talking about gum is it pink gum, is it a big stick of gum shoe is a running shoe is it a dress shoe, just really get a concrete idea of what the item represents and then draw that item. This will solidify the Association of that item with the number The peg, this is just creating a sequential ordered list in a memory trick on how to memorize a sequentially ordered list. And then visually visually image imagine the peg word that's just really key, you really have to visualize it, draw it, and really focus on the details of it.

And so an example is this a short list here, milk, bread, eggs, and, and cheese. And so as you kind of picture that, you're going to just create a sort of a little, little story. For example, you could imagine a piece of gum stuck to the top of the milk carton, you could imagine after that the shoe is crushing the loaf of bread. You can imagine a tree full of eggs and four doors, cheese. Imagine Mona pick on the Green Bay Packers. Imagine that you're a Green Bay Packer fan and your best friend is at the door.

Knocking with a cheese head on. And so as you construct the story, you'll get a pretty simple mental picture of these items. Obviously, you don't need to memorize these items sequentially. But that's just sort of how the peg system works. So some people use the alphabet peg system. Honestly, it's not my most favorite technique for memorization, but some people swear by it.

So let's experiment with it and see what you think chunking This is a powerful technique and relates oftentimes to numerical data. If you're trying to memorize some numerical information for formulas, or you're just memorizing your credit card. This is a simple way to do it. And just imagine the difference in the two numbers or when you're given a list of, you know, 10 digits, it's very difficult to memorize them and work. But if you break them down into chunks as I depicted here, it's much easier to remember 197 2323 and 234 Then all that clumped together. So you're just you're just breaking pieces of information down into a size that's, that's manageable, and we much easy to move that into long term memory as such.

The cross stick technique This is a commonly used one for med students. Remember mnemonic, I guess you could say, but basically the first letter of a word represents a clue to remembering the item that you're trying to recall. And so the first example is just a musical reference egbdf lines and stanza every good. I spelled the wrong Every Good Boy does fine. Medical School cranial nerves, oh to touch. A little bit of a risky mnemonics.

I'll end it there, but we're just talking about you know, the cranial nerves thalmic optic, olfactory trochlear Trigeminal probably got the was out of order, but you get the point. And so those are just a few extra techniques that you can utilize to help you with memorization. Obviously, a good chunk of learning involves rote memorization. And once you've mastered that, you certainly can apply those concepts much more readily when it comes to exam time.